#natur

O sleep, O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frightened thee, 1710. That thou no more will weigh my eyelids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness? ↗

— William Shakespeare

#insomniac #nature

Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#destruction #flawed #human-character #human-nature #nature

I barely noticed loneliness anymore; it was my normal condition, by necessity if not by nature. ↗

— Rachel Hartman

#nature

Your father always suspected that being pretty-minded is simply the natural state for most people. They want to be vapid and lazy and vain—Maddy glanced at Tally—and selfish. It only takes a twist to lock in that part of their personalities. He always thought that some people could think their way out of it. ↗

— Scott Westerfeld

#ya #nature

She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning. ↗

— Jane Austen

#nature

You must carry on my spirit. It can no longer be carried by a god. It must be taken up by all of you. - Pan ↗

— Rick Riordan

#pan #nature

But silence is not a natural environment for stories. They need words. Without them they grown pale, sicken and die. And then they haunt you. ↗

— Diane Setterfield

#storytelling #nature

Why is marijuana against the law? It grows naturally upon our planet. Doesn’t the idea of making nature against the law seem to you a bit . . . unnatural? ↗

— Bill Hicks

#nature

I'm scared," he says. "I know," says the nurse. "I want you all to go to Hell." "That's natural. ↗

— Neal Shusterman

#nature

Every name is real. That's the nature of names. ↗

— Jerry Spinelli

#nature